Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265166AbTGHMDW (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:03:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266557AbTGHMDV (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:03:21 -0400 Received: from tmi.comex.ru ([217.10.33.92]:1670 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265166AbTGHMDQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:03:16 -0400 X-Comment-To: Andi Kleen Cc: bzzz@tmi.comex.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] parallel directory operations From: Alex Tomas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Organization: HOME Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:17:47 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20030708141136.18e0034f.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:11:36 +0200") Message-ID: <877k6tuh5g.fsf@gw.home.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) References: <87wuetukpa.fsf@gw.home.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <87of05ujfo.fsf@gw.home.net> <20030708134601.7992e64a.ak@suse.de> <87fzlhuif0.fsf@gw.home.net> <20030708141136.18e0034f.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 20 >>>>> Andi Kleen (AK) writes: AK> On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:50:27 +0000 AK> bzzz@tmi.comex.ru wrote: >> well, it makes sense. AFAIU, only problem with this solution is that we need >> very well-tuned hash function. AK> A small rbtree or similar would work too. Linux already has the utility code for this. AK> And a fast path to avoid the overhead when it isn't needed (e.g. first locker uses a AK> preallocated lock node, which is cheap to queue) hmm. interesting! thanks for review. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/